I completely agree, that’s why I didn’t even mention it’s current name in the video, because it’ll always be Sears Tower to me too.

@@AllThingsArchitectureCulturally when something is known for a long time and names change. We stick to it because it’s what we think is familiar! My advice as a Chicago area resident, I’d highly recommend you blend in as a local and refer to places by there respective names.

ALWAYS!!!

Nashville is already a big city

That’s a cool memory. You probably are. I think a lot of people would get vertigo being upside down on the top floor of one of the tallest buildings in the world.

Holy shit. Your uncle was actually Bruce Graham? Where you close to him? Lot of visits?

@@nomad1517 My family mainly lived in Mexico City during most of my childhood and youth. But my fondest memory was when my mom took me to Chicago and we stayed at Bruce’s apartment. He took me on a tour of the John Hancock building, which was still under construction. I think there was a swimming pool on the 95th floor. Uncle Bruce’s kids, our cousins do keep in touch. There are many interesting stories about my uncle Bruce given that our family is distributed throughout Latin America. My uncle Harry lived in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Bruce was visiting him one day when they went out to have drinks. It was late at night, 1 AM, when they went driving through the streets of Guayaquil. Bruce told Harry to stop the car and pointed to what looked like a dilapidated market and said that he knew what it was. It was a Gustaf Eiffel kit used to build many buildings throughout Latin America. Thanks to Bruce’s sharp eye the building was restored in its entirety and is a major tourist attraction in Ecuador today. I think there’s also a twin in Quito. Bruce might have been born in Cali Columbia, since that was one of the many cities my grandmother‘s family lived in. What I loved about the unabashed modernism of Bruce Graham and his inspiration, Mies Van der Rohe, was there social optimism that society overtime would become increasingly equal. This is reflected in the openness and confidence that their buildings project at the street level. Today no significant office building has been built without at least 10 stories of fortress at the street level. It began with the Renaissance Center in Detroit and even our own Bonaventure hotel in Los Angeles. These buildings exude civic hostility and paranoia. By contrast, you can see the elevator doors from the street curbside of Lever house in New York City. Bruce talked about structural honesty in buildings, that the building should be what it is and show what it does. As one who decries the decadence of postmodernism with its whimsy and arbitrary use of decor, I miss the mid-century modernists.

Your analysis sounds spot-on!!!